August 1961 lunar eclipse
| Partial Lunar Eclipse August 26, 1961 | |
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| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 137 (25 of 81) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | UTC |
| U1 | |
| Greatest | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on August 26, 1961, the second of two partial lunar eclipses in 1961. This nearly total lunar eclipse of Saros cycle 137 preceded the first total eclipse on September 6, 1979.[1]
Visibility[]
Related lunar eclipses[]
Lunar year series[]
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 102 | 1958 Apr 4
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Penumbral
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| 112 | 1959 Mar 24
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Partial
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117 | 1959 Sep 17
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Penumbral
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| 122 | 1960 Mar 13
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Total
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127 | 1960 Sep 5
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Total
| |
| 132 | 1961 Mar 2
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Partial
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137 | 1961 Aug 26
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Partial
| |
| 142 | 1962 Feb 19
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Penumbral
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147 | 1962 Aug 15
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Penumbral
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| Last set | 1958 May 3 | Last set | 1958 Oct 27 | |||
| Next set | 1963 Jan 9 | Next set | 1962 Jul 17 | |||
See also[]
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes[]
External links[]
- 1961 Aug 26 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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